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FBaggins

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5. But that's because they're producing hardly any power compared to the region's demands
Fri Mar 1, 2024, 12:36 PM
Mar 2024
It would be idiotic to let that free energy in the wind blow by

It is in no sense "free energy" (as evidenced by the price necessary to harvest it)

The wind will never stop blowing

On the contrary. It stops all the time (and often at the least opportune moments - as much of Canada learned last year).

It is indeed effectively "limitless"... it's just unreliable.
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